A half-century eroded those constraints. The Supreme Court gutted the campaign finance laws and narrowed the definition of ...

Shifts in congressional process, rising violence and distortions of money in politics render making change even harder for ...

After reviewing state voter rolls going back to the 1980s, Louisiana’s Republican secretary of state announced this month ...

The line between public service and private gain continues to blur as financial elites secure pardons and regulatory leniency ...

And Landry acknowledged that she couldn’t even be sure that those 79 were actual cases of ineligible votes being cast — some ...

The administration’s plans to fight crime by dictating state bail policy or deploying the National Guard won’t build long-term safety, but there are many evidence-based ways to reduce crime.

In gun cases, more than in other areas of constitutional law, Supreme Court justices increasingly rely on legal scholarship. Nearly seven years later, Amar’s prediction has largely come true — but ...

Concerns over the risks have led to a near-universal opposition on the left, but some are asking whether it’s wise to take that option off the table. Over the past few decades, conservative activists ...

View the entire Corruption in America collection Fossil fuel interests donated heavily to President Trump’s 2024 reelection bid. Months after his victory, oil and gas moguls have continued to pump ...

Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. Last year, the Brennan Center partnered with VoteRiders, the Center ...

Editor’s note: A recap of 2021’s voting laws as well as a look at voting legislation planned for 2022 can be found here. The 2020 federal election drew the United States’ highest voter turnout in more ...

Months of unprecedented actions signal that the Trump administration is pursuing a concerted strategy to undermine the next election. One part of that effort is an ongoing attempt to collect voter ...